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R E T S 0 F N G BEATER FOR EGGS, &;c.

No. 453,998. Patented June 9,1891.

WITNESSES ATTORNEY.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE N. FOSTER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE AMERICAN MACHINE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

BEATER FOR EGGS, 84C.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 453,998, dated June 9, 1891.

Application filed August 21, 1890. Serial No. 362,599. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: fective and produces the best and quickest Be it known that I, GEORGE N. FOSTER, it results. At the ends of the bows where they citizen of the United States, residing in the are connected with a handle is a corrugated city and county of Philadelphia, State of or crimped piece of wire or other material,

Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useforming a shackle O, the same receiving the ful Improvement in Beaters for Eggs, &c., adjacent portions of the bows and having its, which improvement is fully set forth in the ends embracing the contiguous portion of the following specification and .accompanying outer bow in such manner that the bows are drawings. prevented from separating near the handle 10 My invention consists of a beater for eggs, of the device and the shackle is held in pocream, &c., having a series of separated bows sition. with means for preventing the same from D designates a piece of wire or other mateclosing on each other, whereby the beating is rial, Which is passed through or around the effectively performed and the deviceis stiffcrowns of the several bows and having its 15 ened and strengthened, the bows being ovoid ends secured to the inner and outer bows, by and having their widest portions at the end which provision said crowns are'prevented opposite to the handle, so as to present the from closing on each other, and thus caused greatest surface to the material to be beaten to retain their normal position or condition or whipped. as spaced, so that when the device is in opera- 2o Figurel represents a perspective view of a tion .the beating of eggs or other material beater embodying my invention. Fig. 2 repmay be effectively accomplished, it being eviresents a section on line as m, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 dent that as the bows are held properly separepresents a section on line y y, Fig. 1. rated the beating portion of the device pre- Similar letters of reference indicate corresents a large surface to the material, it being 25 sponding parts in the several figures. also evident that the bows are stifiened and Referring to the drawings, A designates a strengthened by the attachments at their a number of bows formed of strips of suitends and crowns.

able metal or material, preferably clock- Having thus described my invention, what spring steel, the .same being of different I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let- 30 sizes, one within the other, and secured to ters Patent, is

the handle 13. The bows are ovoid or oval An egg-beater having a series of flexible shape, their widest portions being at the outer strips, one within the other, a separating and end of the device, so as to present thereat the connecting piece secured to the crown of said greatest surface to the material to be beaten, strips, and a shackle secured to the gathered 35 as the work of beating or whipping is most ends of the said strips, said parts being comeffectively performed at the end of a beater. bined substantially as described.

Furthermore, the bows are of the form of GEO. N. FOSTER. strips which present their sharp or narrow Vitnesses: edge to the material, it being understood that JOHN A. \VIEDERSHEIM,

to a cutting action on the material is most ef- A. P. JENNINGS. 

